Chapter 1 Social research and everyday life; Chapter 2 Dimensions of social research; Chapter 3 Official statistics and social research; Chapter 4 The survey method; Chapter 5 Interviewing; Chapter 6 Observation in laboratories and other structured settings; Chapter 7 Ethnography and qualitative analysis; Chapter 8 Documentary sources and textual analysis; Chapter 9 The practice of research;
Julia O’Connell Davidson is Lecturer in Sociology., Derek Layder is Reader in Sociology at the University of Leicester.
'... it is certainly a very valuable read to those studying on
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'A unique new contribution that is anything but boring. As the
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Sociology.
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